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Title
Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Laskey, Anne
Date Created and/or Issued
1978
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
This collection is comprised of approximately 1,000 slides capturing buildings along Wilshire Boulevard. The slides were taken during Tuesday afternoon walks in 1978-1979 by Marlene Laskey and her 15-year-old daughter, Annie, who was the primary photographer. Marlene (1933-1989) was a Michigan native who moved to Los Angeles in the 1950s and became a Los Angeles historian and architecture enthusiast. At the time of her death from cancer, Marlene was working on a Master of Urban Planning degree at UCLA, and was an interviewer for UCLA's Oral History program.; Title supplied by cataloger; The highest resolution available for this image is 300 dpi.
Exterior view of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, showing the synagogue's information board (left) and a decorative light outside the entrance. This is the seat of one of the most highly respected Reform congregations, founded in 1862 as Congregation B'nai B'rith. Designed in the Byzantine Revival style by architects A.M. Edelman, S. Tilden Norton, and David C. Allison, this Temple was dedicated in 1929. Its richly ornamental interior features black marble, gold inlay, fine mosaics, rare woods, and Biblically-themed murals created by art director Hugo Ballin. The Temple, located at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard, is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and was entered in the United States Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Type
image
Format
1 slide :color ;5 x 5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00090166
Marlene & Anne Laskey Wilshire Boulevard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
GPC_b16_f2_i25
CARL0004968292
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/121343
Subject
Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Synagogues--California--Los Angeles
Exterior lighting--California--Los Angeles
Byzantine revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Los Angeles Photographers Collection photographs
Marlene Laskey/Wilshire Boulevard Collection photographs
Slides
Norton, S. Tilden
Allison, David C
Edelman, A.M
Time Period
1971-1980

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